Shuffling through the web I see a few current stories that might be of interest to union watchers everywhere…

Pennsylvanians awoke today to a tale from Investor’s Business Daily headlined, “Specter Tells Business He’ll Back Pro-Union Card Check.”

Apparently Benedict Arlen is a yes vote for cloture on the pro-union card check legislation. Not much of a surprise as he’s been very pro-union since his sudden switch to the Democrat Party last year.

So, mark Benedict Arlen as a “yes” vote to destroy the business community, eliminate the democratic right to a secret vote for union members, and an increase in union intimidation for workers across the country. Good going Benedict Arlen.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has a biting editorial asserting that unions are attempting to destroy the U.S. Postal Service. Its piece headlined “It’s in the mail” starts off saying that “The union label is bringing yet another major American employer to its knees: the U.S. Postal Service.”

About half of the Postal Service’s 600,000 workers are eligible to retire in the next 10 years. They can’t be laid off, their growing salaries can’t be scaled back, and their pensions and health care subsidies are essentially a property right. Although new union contracts will be negotiated this year and next, Mr. Potter freely admits that next to nothing can be done to control Postal Service personnel costs.

Unions have hijacked the airline industry, sent automakers into a ditch and all but bankrupted states and local governments. Now they’re hastening the demise of this country’s mail service.

What more can you add to that?

Finally, United Press International has its titled, “Unions Demand More from White House.”

Here we see some whiney union hacks all upset that Obama hasn’t bent over backwards for them after they showered his presidential campaign with some $400 million in campaign donations.

I guess I can see why they’d be a tad upset. My heart breaks, pally. But let’s face facts, unions have fewer and fewer members every year and have fewer and fewer votes to deliver for all that money! Who can blame politicians for taking money but otherwise ignoring them if the unions don’t have nearly the power to coerce those pols to toe the union line?

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